Tornado season
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Living in SW MO we get it every year, although our town just seems to disseminate anything particularly nasty as it rolls in from OK.
Luckily we have a huge basement and safe area, so when the sky turns that funny gray/green color and it gets real still, and the silence it broken by the wail of the siren, we're hot-footing it downstairs with kid and dogs with local tv and the radio on.
I fucking love the sirens though - there's one about 100 yards from our backdoor, it's immensely loud as it spins round and points at us. You can also hear the one in the other neighborhood, slightly different pitch, they sound like the end of the world. I release nearly a pint of adrenaline everytime they start them up. The closest we've had is an F0 about 30 yards outside our backyard which struck a little wooden building and smashed the 4x2's into pieces about 6" long and scoured out the ground.
I really feel for people that get their whole house wiped out down to the concrete foundations - you always think it's going to miss you.- i lived in oklahoma for a few years, but the tornadoes i saw there were nothing compared to this stormbjladams
- yeh, just reading about it. (the Tuscaloosa one); immense, wow.mikotondria3